The significance of integration of families of seminarians in the Roman Catholic ministerial formation in South Africa by Sr Puseletso Clementina Mokone, Dr KJ Pali

“…This article proposes that a family should not be ignored in the formation of ministerial priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) seminary. The delay in involving a family hinders the holistic development of the priest candidate. …”
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THE POOR - A THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION by Ivica Raguž

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Böhmen und die Eigenkirchen. Zu den Eliten des frühen Mittelalters bis die Mitte des 12. Jahrhunderts by Tomáš Velímský

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National, Regional, or Just Catholic?—Dilemmas of Church Art in a German–Polish Borderland. Upper Silesia, 1903–1953 by Jerzy Gorzelik

“…This strategy was designed to incorporate Catholic Slavophones into the national community. The adoption of a different concept of the nation by the pro-German priests associated with the Centre Party—with a stronger emphasis on the subjective criteria of national belonging—resulted in greater restraint in expressing national contents in sacred spaces.…”
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Migration and Integration of Foreign Priests. Aspirations, Religiosity, and Tensions in the Narratives of Foreign Priests in Italy by Angela Delli Paoli, Giuseppe Masullo

“…That resulted in a typology of 4 types of migrant priests: careerist priests, highly educated and integrated into the host country, driven by career and salary aspiration, and showing a highly politicized vision of religion; servant priests, with a strong missionary impulse to serve the Church as a universal institution transcending abstract and real boarders; evangelist priests who feel the moral obligation to evangelize secularized countries to bring them back to the origins of Catholicism; rebel priests who feel second-class priests, discriminated both within and outside the Church, in a country where they were forced to move, for this reason questioning their sense of clear vocational directions.…”
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Catholic Pastoral and Prophetic Responses to a Secularizing Landscape by John Sullivan

“… The purpose of this article is to offer a retrieval of some major themes in the writings of Ro­mano Guardini and Ivan Illich, two twentieth century Catholic priests who responded to secularization in ways that could be described as both pastoral and prophetic. …”
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ROLE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY OF THE NORTHWESTERN KRAI OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN THE 1863 POLISH UPRISING by Alexandre Yu Bendin

“…The author comes to the conclusion that radically-minded Roman Catholic priests and monks managed to turn the church doctrine into a mobilizing ideology of the armed struggle. …”
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“We are the Church here!” The opposition of the concepts “institution” and “charisma” in the german catholic movement of renewal in the second half of the 20th century by Aleksei Chernyi

“…The ideas of the Freckenhorst group, the most infl uential group of Catholic priests who advocated church reforms, are considered as an example of this theological argument. …”
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The Issue of the Number of Priests in the USA and the UK in the Second Half of the 20th Century by Emelyanov Nikolai, archpriest

“…The author analyzes different approaches towards evaluating the number of Roman Catholic and Protestant priests in the USA and in the Church of England. …”
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Relacje Kardynała Augusta Hlonda z Arcybiskupem Józefem Gawliną w latach 1993-1948 by Sławomir Bylina

“…The common history of priests Cardinal August Hlond and Archbishop Joseph Gawlina in the years 1933–1948 is interspersed with the major events in the history of the Catholic Church in Poland and the world. …”
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Catholic organisation Opus Dei in Spain: origin and formation (1928–1975) by Валерия Игоревна Настусевич

“…Special attention is given to the history of the origin of the organisation, its structure and institutionalisation, its influence on economic policy and education in Spain, as well as obtaining the official standing of Opus Dei in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. The problems of opening the first centers of the organisation, the foundation of the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, the formation of legal mechanisms that allowed regulating the activities of Opus Dei are considered. …”
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Niemcy wobec Kościoła – Kościół wobec Niemców. Okupacja niemiecka w dekanacie radzyńskim w latach 1939-1944 by Iwona Stefaniak

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Obedience as Belonging: Catholic Guilt and Frequent Confession in America by Jonathan Stotts

“…From the late 19th to the mid-20th century, the practice of private confession to a priest was a mainstay of Catholic parish life in the United States. …”
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Opracowanie Księdza Profesora Rektora Mariana Rechowicza na temat diakonatu stałego z 1961 roku by Michał Białkowski

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Exploratory Study Based on Stakeholder Theory in the Development of Accounting Information Systems in the Catholic Church: A Case Study in the Archdiocese of Semarang, Indonesia by Siswanto Fransiscus Asisi Joko, Anggraini Francisca Reni Retno, Widodo Bernardinus Sri

“…This study provides an answer on the benefits of a bottom-up strategy based on the stakeholder analysis in the development of AIS in the area of the Catholic Church AS.…”
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Exploratory study based on stakeholder theory in the development of accounting information systems in the Catholic Church: a case study in the Archdiocese of Semarang, Indonesia by Siswanto, Fransiscus Asisi Joko, Anggraini, Francisca Reni Retno, Widodo, Bernardinus Sri

“…This study aims to find a strategy in the development of computer-based accounting information system in the church.With exploratory study on the theory of stakeholders, this study identifies the needs of financial information for the purposes of making a decision required by the parish priest, the parish treasurer, and a team of economists at the archdiocese of Semarang (AS). …”
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Church Court Records as Evidence for the Christianisation of Lithuanian Society in the Late-15th and Early-16th Century by S.C. Rowell

“…This article surveys evidence of Lithuanian social and religious life during the long fifteenth century as revealed by consistory court records from the sees of Płock, Gniezno, Lutsk and Cracow. The dynamics of church court evidence coincide with those of other aspects of Catholic life in the Grand Duchy. …”
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Priests and their wigs in eighteenth-century Rome by Pattenden, M

“…The wig was the quintessential accessory of eighteenth-century European culture, but the wearing of wigs by clerics became a subject of heated controversy across Catholic societies. Critics of clerical wig-wearing pointed to its inherent vanity, to Paul’s proscription against men covering their heads in Church in 1 Corinthians, and to its apparent denial of the tonsure’s importance as the visible outward sign of clerical status. …”

REVIEW OF THE CATHOLIC AND CROATIAN PERIODICALS IN BIH FROM 1878 TO 1918 WITH A SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE JOURNAL CALLED BALKAN by Tomo Vukšić

“…The main preoccupation of this journal was the reestablishment of unity among Christians, especially between Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church. But, Stadler’s ecumenical appeals were not productive for the Eastern Orthodox metropolitans and priests of that period.…”
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Moralna odpowiedzialność chrześcijan za misyjne dzieło Kościoła by Marek Kluz

“…Observing social changes in the world, one can easily notice the current need of the involvement of all Christians in the missionary work of the Catholic Church. Many of the papal and conciliar statements show the different aspects of a constant and urgent need of the evangelisation of the present-day world. …”
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